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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Cc: <hangar18-general@open-forge.org>
Subject: [9fans] Re: CDROM boot failed, how can i do?
Date: Fri,  1 Aug 2003 06:37:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0308010635320.15683-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <toCdnRmeTu6vdLSiU-KYvg@comcast.com>


On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

> Jim Choate wrote:
> > ... I'd say -never-
> > put your CD drive as a slave on a EIDE (or IDE for that matter), unless
> > you're sure you'll -never- want to boot from it.
>
> There shouldn't be any problem booting from any IDE position.

However, the fact is there -is-. I've seen this on Windows, Linux, Plan 9,
Unununium, etc. So have many others over many years, it is not a new
problem by any means.

If you want to minimize the hassles with CD's then always put them in as
the master.


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      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-01 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307310642350.15683-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
2003-07-31 12:07 ` [9fans] " River He
2003-07-31 13:51   ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-31 23:28     ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2003-08-01  9:02       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-08-01 11:37         ` Jim Choate [this message]

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